Licensed Practical Nurse (Psychiatry)
Veterans Health Administration · Department of Veterans Affairs
This job in plain English
This is a full-time Licensed Practical Nurse job in the Mental Health Service at the VA Boston Healthcare System's Brockton campus, in the Homeless Domiciliary Program for Veterans. The Veterans Health Administration is hiring for one vacancy. The shift is weekday daytime, with rotations that include weekends and holidays.
Can you apply?
Yes, if you are a U.S. citizen: this job is open to everyone.
- Open to everyoneAny U.S. citizen or national can apply. Some jobs also accept non-citizens; the announcement says so.
- Agency employees onlyOnly current employees of the hiring agency.
Other groups listed above may get extra consideration, for example veterans' preference.
You must be a U.S. citizen. The clarification says the job is open to all U.S. citizens, current permanent VA employees, and current permanent federal employees of other agencies. Veterans' preference does not apply to this job.
What you would do
- Give direct nursing care to Veterans in a residential mental health program
- Help coordinate care and referrals with the program's MD or NP
- Prepare and give medications, and record how patients respond
- Watch for physical and emotional changes and report them to the RN or doctor
- Help orient less experienced nurses and aides, and teach patients and families
Do you qualify for GS-3 to GS-6?
With experience: At the entry level (GS-3), no experience is needed beyond the basic requirements. To reach GS-4, you need six months of LPN or LVN experience, or one year of nursing care work in a hospital, clinic, nursing home, or similar facility; GS-5 needs one year at GS-4, and GS-6 needs one more year at GS-5.
With education: You can qualify with graduation from a practical or vocational nursing school approved by a state agency or accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission when you finished. Military health training accepted by your state licensing body can also count, as can a license granted by a state that does not require school graduation.
Licenses and certifications you need:
- Active, full, current, and unrestricted license as a Graduate Licensed Practical or Vocational Nurse in a U.S. state, territory, Puerto Rico, or DC
How to apply well
What to send:
- Resume with job title, duties, month and year dates, hours per week, and employer name and full address for each job
- Transcripts if you use education to qualify
- Copy of your nursing license
- SF-50 showing your position title, series, grade, step, tenure, and service type, if you are a current or former federal employee
- Written answers to knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) questions, if asked later
How you will be rated: You are rated on how well your application meets the qualifications, using an online questionnaire. The VA verifies your resume and documents, and errors or missing information can lower your rating or make you ineligible. Eligible applicants are reviewed in this order: current permanent VA employees at the facility, other VA employees, then all other applicants.
Tips for this job:
- Your resume must show month and year dates, hours per week, and each employer's full address, or you may be rated ineligible.
- Attach transcripts if you rely on school to qualify, and attach your active nursing license.
- Describe your nursing duties in specific detail, because the VA will not assume anything about your experience.
Good to know before you apply
Schedule: Full-time, Monday to Friday, 6:00am to 2:30pm, with rotations that include weekends and holidays. A compressed schedule may be available.
Incentives and relocation: A sign-on bonus may be authorized. Relocation assistance is not authorized. Federal benefits include paid time off, parental leave, a child care subsidy, a federal pension, a 401K with VA contributions, and health insurance.
Conditions of employment:
- U.S. citizenship required
- Drug test (urinalysis) before appointment
- Selective Service registration for males born after 12/31/1959
- Must be proficient in written and spoken English
- Background and security investigation
- REAL ID-compliant identification needed for onboarding
- Pre-employment physical examination
- Seasonal flu vaccination required, or an approved exemption
- 1 or 2-year trial period
We wrote this summary automatically from the official announcement. The announcement on USAJOBS is the only one that counts: read it before you apply.
Job details
- Salary
- $66,624 – $103,977 per year
- Pay scale and grade
- GS-3 to GS-6 · General Schedule
- Location
- Brockton, Massachusetts
- Appointment
- Permanent
- Work schedule
- Full-time
- Service
- Excepted
- Openings
- 1
- Security clearance
- Not Required
- Travel
- Not required
- Drug test
- Not required
- Supervisory
- No
- Occupation
- Practical Nurse (0620)
- Announcement
- CBTD-13070623-26-TL
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